Current sectionIsrael NewsIsrael SecurityShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribePalestinian refugees fleeing villages captured in the Latrun area. The IDF expelled them, and the JNF built Canada Park over the ruins. Credit: Benia Ben-NunUnpublished testimonies from soldiers who fought in the Six-Day War expose a stark gap between Israel's collective memory and what actually happened in 1967. Newly uncovered documents indicate that 300,000 Arabs were expelled or displaced from the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights amid violence, looting and destruction | An investigationAdam Raz11:26 PM • June 04 2026 IDT"At first I wasn't willing to execute Arabs who weren't resisting," one soldier said. "Then we came to the conclusion that we had to kill. We went through the process of ceasing to see them as human beings."Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:PalestiniansIsrael war crimesIDFNakbaIsrael-PalestineIsrael occupationCommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Israel-Iran Live UpdatesLebanonGulfNoam SohlbergMichael RabelloNetanyahu-TrumpHaQuizHaaretz Podcast'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know AboutIsraeli Soldier Killed by Hezbollah Anti-tank Missile Strike in Southern LebanonNetanyahu Appoints New Military Secretary After Former Aide Named Mossad ChiefPalestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem Spend Eid Demolishing Their Own HomesJewish Violence Against Palestinians and Jews Alike Exposes Israel's UnravelingRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFar-right Israeli Ministers Join Thousands at Israel Day Parade in New YorkWho Built the Biblical-era Fortresses in the Deserts of Israel and Jordan?UN Report Accuses Israeli Forces of Rape, Sexual Abuse of Palestinian DetaineesIsrael's Solution to the Gaza Problem Is Well Underway'Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report Says'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This'